JPH10333832A - Cursor mark controller and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically move a mouse cursor to a mouse cursor display position before the output of a dialog window after the dialog window was eliminated. SOLUTION: The position coordinate information of a cursor mark just before a dialog window is displayed is held in a cursor mark position coordinate holding means 54, and when the dialog window is displayed, an already decided value button position coordinate information is received from a dialog already decided value button position coordinate storing means 53, and the cursor mark is automatically moved to the already decided value button position in the dialog window. Then, when the dialog window has been eliminated, the cursor mark position coordinate information before the display of the dialog window is received from a mouse cursor position coordinate holding means 54, and a cursor mark position before the display of the dialog window is set.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a cursor mark control device and a control method in a display device of a human-machine interactive processing type information processing system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread of personal computers and word processors, computers have become indispensable for daily work. For this reason, the handling of computers has been expanded from general clerks and managers to households as well as professional operators, and man-machine interactive processing while watching the display screen is common. As a form of display control for such man-machine interaction processing, a dialog window method has been developed and widely used.

[0003] Normally, a dialog window is used to alert an operator of an erroneous operation or the like from the apparatus side as shown in FIG. 2 and a character input field, a radio button, or the like as shown in FIG. A window, such as a check box, output on a display device for requesting information from an operator. This dialog window is output on the window on which the operator has been working so far, and the operator achieves the purpose by placing the cursor on those instruction items and instructing execution. In this case, in order to move the cursor mark to a desired item, and to instruct execution when it matches correctly, a position coordinate input device such as a mouse and a click button provided on the mouse or the like are used. Is common. FIG. 4 shows an example of such an information processing system. In the following description, a mouse is used as an input device for the position coordinates of the cursor mark, and thus the cursor mark is referred to as a mouse cursor.

[0004] In FIG. 4, when the processing system 1 issues a dialog output request to the dialog output means 5,
The dialog output means 5 includes a button position coordinate storage means 51
A dialog window is generated based on the information from, and the contents are written in the frame memory 31 to display the dialog window on the display device 3. Then, the coordinate coincidence determination unit 52 receives the position coordinate information determined by the mouse 4 from the mouse cursor coordinate input unit 41, compares the coordinate information with the position coordinate information of the button position coordinate storage unit 51, and when they match, the processing system 1 , The operator's instructions are taken into the processing system 1 via the dialog window.

[0005] In this way, the dialog processing can be performed with the help of the dialog window. However, during this time, the window on which the user has been working cannot be accessed until the operator gives an instruction to delete the dialog window. , Can not continue the work so far. Therefore, in order to continue the work up to now, the operator needs to confirm the contents displayed in the dialog window and give an instruction to delete the dialog window from the display device.

At this time, the deletion of the dialog window is usually performed by clicking a predetermined button in the dialog window with a mouse. Therefore, every time the dialog window is output, the operator moves the mouse cursor into the dialog window, clicks the specified button, and after erasing the dialog window, moves the mouse cursor to the dialog to continue the operation up to now. A complicated operation of moving to the mouse cursor display position before window output was required.

As one means for solving this problem, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-1
Japanese Patent No. 52972 discloses a “dialog output device”. FIG.
FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a cursor mark control device incorporating the essential points. The cursor mark control device shown in FIG.
Processing system 1, keyboard 2, display device 3, mouse 4, dialog output means 5, frame memory 31, mouse cursor coordinate input means 41, mouse cursor position setting means 42, mouse cursor output means 43 Button coordinate storage means 51, coordinate coincidence determination means 52, and default button position coordinate storage means 5.
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[0008] The processing system 1 receives input information from the keyboard 2 and the mouse 4, and receives a dialog output device 5.
Is instructed to output a dialog window. The keyboard 2 transmits key input information to the processing system 1. The display device 3 performs display on a display screen according to the contents of the frame memory 31. The mouse 4 transmits to the mouse cursor coordinate input means 41 the mouse cursor position coordinates and the confirmation information when the click button of the mouse is pressed. The mouse cursor position setting means 42 receives the position coordinate information of the mouse cursor and makes an output request to the mouse cursor output means 43.

The mouse cursor output means 43 outputs a mouse cursor to the display device 3 via the frame memory 31. The button position coordinate storage means 51
Stores the button position coordinates in the dialog window. The coordinate coincidence determination unit 52 determines whether the button position coordinates in the dialog window stored in the button position coordinate storage unit 51 match the coordinate input information from the mouse cursor coordinate input unit 41. The default button position coordinate storage means 53 stores default button position coordinate information in the dialog window.

Next, the operation of the conventional cursor mark control device will be briefly described. When the processing system 1 instructs the dialog output unit 5 to output a dialog window, the default button position coordinate information stored in the default button position coordinate storage unit 53 is notified to the mouse cursor position setting unit 42. The display position of the mouse cursor automatically moves to the default button position in the dialog window. In this way, when the dialog window is output, the mouse cursor is automatically moved to the default button in the dialog.

[0011]

In the above-described conventional dialog output device, the trouble of moving the mouse cursor to the default button position in the dialog window when outputting the dialog window can be omitted, but after the dialog window is erased, the operator can delete the dialog window. In order to continue the operation before output, there remains a problem that the mouse cursor must be moved to a display position of the mouse cursor before output of the dialog window. This is because the mouse cursor is not controlled after the operator issues an instruction to fix a button on the dialog window and deletes the dialog window from the display device.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks and automatically move the mouse cursor to the mouse cursor display position before outputting the dialog window after erasing the dialog window. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a cursor mark control device and a control method which improve the operability by eliminating the need to move the mouse cursor to the mouse cursor display position.

[0013]

According to the present invention, there is provided a man-machine interactive information processing system in which a dialog window is displayed in which items for instructing judgment and processing are displayed, and an operator instructs selection of those items using a cursor mark. In a cursor mark control device in a display device of a system, while a dialog window is displayed, a cursor mark position coordinate holding means for holding position coordinate information of a cursor mark immediately before the dialog window is displayed, When the cursor mark is deleted, the cursor mark is returned to the position before the dialog window is displayed based on the position coordinate information held by the cursor mark position coordinate holding means.

As described above, according to the present invention, the mouse cursor position coordinate holding means holds the position coordinates of the mouse cursor when the dialog window is output, and when the dialog window is deleted, the mouse cursor position coordinate holding means Automatically move the mouse cursor to the held position.

Therefore, since the display position of the mouse cursor does not change before and after the output of the dialog window, the burden on the operator to move the mouse after erasing the dialog window is reduced.

[0016]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a cursor mark control device according to the present invention. The cursor mark control device shown in FIG. 1 comprises a processing system 1, a keyboard 2, a display device 3, a mouse 4, a dialog output means 5, a frame memory 31, a mouse cursor coordinate input means 41, a mouse cursor position. Setting means 42
A mouse cursor output unit 43, a button position coordinate storage unit 51, a coordinate coincidence determination unit 52, a default button position coordinate storage unit 53, and a mouse cursor position coordinate holding unit 54.

The processing system 1 receives input information from the keyboard 2 and the mouse 4, and receives a dialog output device 5.
Is instructed to output a dialog window. The keyboard 2 notifies the processing system 1 of key input information. The display device 3 performs display on a display screen according to the contents of the frame memory 31.

The mouse 4 notifies the mouse cursor coordinate input means 41 of mouse cursor position coordinate information and determination information when the click button of the mouse is pressed. The mouse cursor coordinate input means 41 receives the coordinate input information from the mouse and the determination information by the click button, and notifies the processing system 1, the mouse cursor position setting means 42, the coordinate match determination determination means 52, and the mouse cursor position coordinate holding means 54. doing.

The mouse cursor position setting means 42 receives the mouse cursor position coordinate information from the mouse cursor coordinate input means 41, the default button position coordinate storage means 53, and the mouse cursor position coordinate holding means 54, and outputs the information to the mouse cursor output means 43. Request for mouse cursor output. The mouse cursor output means 43 is provided in the frame memory 3
1, a mouse cursor is output to the display device 3.

The button position coordinate storage means 51 stores button position coordinates in a dialog window. The coordinate coincidence determination unit 52 includes a button position coordinate storage unit 51.
Is compared with the coordinates of the button position in the dialog window stored in the dialog box and the coordinate input information from the mouse cursor coordinate input means 41. If the click button of the mouse is pressed on a button in the dialog window, the processing system 1 is executed. Notifying.

The default button position coordinate storage means 53 stores default button position coordinate information in the dialog window. The mouse cursor position coordinate holding means 54
In response to a request from the dialog output means 5, mouse cursor position coordinate information at the time of dialog window output is obtained from the mouse cursor coordinate input means 41, and the mouse cursor position coordinate information obtained at the time of dialog window output at the time of erasing the dialog window is obtained. 42 has been notified.

Next, the operation of the cursor mark control device will be described. When the dialog output means 5 receives a dialog window output request from the processing system 1, it outputs a dialog window on the display device 3. At this time, the mouse cursor position coordinate holding unit 54 stores the current display position coordinates of the mouse cursor. Then, the default button position coordinate storage unit 53 notifies the mouse cursor position setting unit 42 of the default button position coordinate table information, so that the mouse cursor is displayed on the default button position in the dialog window.

Next, when the button in the dialog window is confirmed by pressing the click button of the mouse from the mouse 4, the coordinate coincidence determination means 52 is notified through the mouse cursor coordinate input means 41. Here, it is determined whether or not the position information matches the button position coordinate information of the button position coordinate storage means 51.
Notify.

The processing system 1 notifies the dialog output means of the dialog window deletion to the dialog output means and deletes the dialog window. At this time, the mouse cursor position coordinates held in the mouse cursor position coordinate holding means 54 are set to the mouse cursor position setting. The means 42 is notified. Therefore, the mouse cursor is displayed at a position before outputting the dialog window.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the display positions of the mouse cursor before the dialog window is output and after the dialog window is erased by the cursor mouse control device of this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 6, a mouse cursor is displayed at a display position 63 before and after dialog output on the display device 3.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display position of a mouse cursor during output of a dialog window by the cursor / mouse control device of this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 7, a dialog window 61 is displayed on the display device 3, and a button 62 is displayed in the dialog window 61. The mouse cursor automatically moves from the display position 63 before and after the dialog window output in FIG. 6 to the display position 64 during the dialog window output in FIG.
It is displayed above. Then, when the operator confirms the button 62 and the dialog window is deleted, the mouse cursor automatically moves to the display position 63 before and after the dialog output shown in FIG.

In this way, the display position of the mouse cursor does not change before and after outputting the dialog window.

In the above description, the conventional example of JP-A-8-15
Since the invention is described based on the invention described in Japanese Patent No. 2972, there is also an effect that the mouse cursor is automatically moved to a default button in the dialog window when outputting the dialog window, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the dialog output is not limited to this. The effect that the display position of the mouse cursor does not move before and after is obtained, and the object of the present invention can be achieved. In the description here, a mouse is used as the input device for the cursor mark. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and similar effects can be obtained with input devices other than a mouse, such as a keyboard and a trackball. The goal can be achieved.

[0030]

As described above, the cursor mark control device of the present invention stores the display position coordinate information of the mouse cursor at the time of outputting the dialog window, and stores the information after the dialog window is erased by fixing the button in the dialog window. Automatically move the mouse cursor to the coordinates of the displayed mouse cursor display position, so that it is not necessary for the operator to move the mouse cursor to the work position before outputting the dialog window after erasing the dialog window on the display device. be able to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a cursor mark control device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a general dialog window for calling attention to an operator.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a general dialog window for requesting information from an operator.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a general cursor mark control device.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a conventional cursor mark control device.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display position of a mouse cursor before and after outputting a dialog window.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display position of a mouse cursor during output of a dialog window.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Processing system 2 Keyboard 3 Display device 4 Mouse 31 Frame memory 41 Mouse cursor coordinate input means 42 Mouse cursor position setting means 43 Mouse cursor output means 51 Button position coordinate storage means 52 Coordinate coincidence determination means 53 Default button position coordinate storage means 54 Mouse cursor position coordinate holding means 61 Dialog window 62 Dialog button 63 Display position before and after dialog output 64 Display position during dialog output

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A cursor mark control in a display device of a human-machine interactive processing type information processing system in which a dialog window is displayed in which items for instructing judgment and processing are displayed, and an operator instructs selection of those items by cursor marks. The apparatus further includes a cursor mark position coordinate holding unit for holding position coordinate information of a cursor mark immediately before the dialog window is displayed while the dialog window is displayed, and the cursor control unit stores the cursor when the dialog window is deleted. A cursor mark control device for returning a cursor mark to a position before displaying a dialog window based on position coordinate information held by a mark position coordinate holding unit. 2. The cursor mark control device according to claim 1, further comprising: a default button position coordinate storage unit for storing default button display position coordinate information in a dialog window, wherein the dialog box is displayed when the dialog window is displayed. Receiving the default button position coordinate information from the default button position coordinate storage means, the cursor mark is automatically moved to the default button position in the dialog window, and the cursor mark position coordinates are deleted when the dialog window is erased. A cursor mark control device for returning a cursor mark to a position before a dialog window is displayed based on position coordinate information held by a holding unit. 3. A cursor mark control in a display device of a man-machine interactive processing type information processing system in which a dialog window is displayed in which items for instructing judgment and processing are displayed, and an operator instructs selection of those items by cursor marks. In the method, while the dialog window is displayed, the position coordinate information of the cursor mark immediately before the dialog window is displayed is retained, and when the dialog window is deleted, the cursor coordinate is received by receiving the position coordinate information. A cursor mark control method characterized by returning a mark to a position before displaying a dialog window. 4. A cursor mark control method according to claim 3, further comprising: storing default button display position coordinate information in a dialog window; receiving the default button position coordinate information when the dialog window is displayed; A cursor mark is automatically moved to a default button position in a dialog window, and the cursor mark is returned to a position before the dialog window is displayed in response to the position coordinate information when the dialog window is deleted. Cursor mark control method.